Questions about the size, costs and merits of security apparatuses have been circling around cities of late.

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Many of such advisors provide vital support to the armed forces, intelligence and security apparatuses of the Saddam Hussein regime.

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Since he emerged from the shadows as Boris Yeltsin's last Prime Minister and heir apparent, he has made a point of demonstrating his continuing loyalties to the institutions of the old Soviet Union, most especially the "power ministries" of the former KGB internal security and intelligence apparatuses and what's left of the USSR's military.

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Disclose and criticize any continuing links between the KGB or other Soviet security apparatuses and elements of the Romanian Front regime.

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We must not lose sight, however, of the larger problem: The Millennium Bug's potential for devastation of an advanced, computer-dependent society like that of the late 20th Century United States is not confined to its national security apparatuses.

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The reality is that, unless the Soviet armed forces and their attendant KGB and GRU security apparatuses are entirely removed from German soil, there can be no effective integration of a united Germany into NATO.

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